Časopis Lumír v období druhé republiky
The Lumír Literary Magazine during the Second Republic (Czecho-Slovakia), 1938–1939

Summary/Abstract: In its last two years (1938–1939, 1939–1940), the Lumír literary magazine joined in efforts to determine the new orientation of the Czech nation. In the periodical, the debate over the conception of the state escalated in connection with the Munich Agreement in autumn 1938, with some contributions highly critical of the policies of the first president, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850–1937), and his partner and successor, Edvard Beneš (1884–1948). Beginning in 1939, efforts in Lumír to come up with a new conception of the Czech nation were no longer taking place in politically oriented articles, but rather in articles about culture. After the German invasion and establishment of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in mid-March, contributors to the periodical tried to avoid political topics. None the less, Lumír was closed down by the authorities at the beginning of 1940; its last issue came out on 31 January 1940.

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